PATRICK

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• PATRICK (noun)
  The noun PATRICK has 1 sense:

1. Apostle and patron saint of Ireland; an English missionary to Ireland in the 5th century

  Familiarity information: PATRICK used as a noun is very rare.

• PATRICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apostle and patron saint of Ireland; an English missionary to Ireland in the 5th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Patrick; Saint Patrick; St. Patrick

Instance hypernyms:

Apostelic Father; Apostle (any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people)

patron saint (a saint who is considered to be a defender of some group or nation)

 Context examples 

When I found Patrick Cairns among the harpooners, my research was nearing its end.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While the lines we were trying to detect were just barely there, we were able to detect them unambiguously thanks to the sensitivity of NIFS on Gemini, combined with the exquisite conditions on Mauna Kea, said lead author Patrick Irwin of the University of Oxford, U.K.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)

Co-leaders of the study are Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Yeargen Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; and Naomi Wray, PhD, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Part of the Shingopana skeleton was excavated in 2002 by scientists affiliated with the Rukwa Rift Basin Project, an international effort led by Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine researchers Patrick O'Connor and Nancy Stevens.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

There was an American young lady there—Patrick was the name—Elsie Patrick.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This room is not well adapted for a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a proportion of our carpet.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were seven of us in a gang in Chicago, and Elsie’s father was the boss of the Joint. He was a clever man, was old Patrick.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You were so absorbed in young Neligan that you could not spare a thought to Patrick Cairns, the true murderer of Peter Carey.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Patrick Cairns.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)